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Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by PascLeRasc »

nailer wrote: post #6
PascLeRasc wrote: post #4

Maybe it's just my inherent bias towards command-line-based Git, but I have to wonder just how useful this is to Git newbies if a lot of their page is dedicated to learning how to use Tower, especially with a 24-part video series.

I imagine it's because the video series is introducing git itself, through Tower's UI. git is a bunch of concepts: commits, branches, tags, a staging area, rebasing, pushing, pulling, the reflog, etc. Provided a git client implements these concepts they're a fine way to learn git. Also note many (not you, just others I've met) 'I only use the command line' git users use git's inbuilt gitk GUI a bunch of the time. Som…

Thanks for the introduction to gitk! I had never heard of that but it's interesting.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by i_live_there »

porker wrote: post #43

Anyone used GitKraken? https://www.gitkraken.com/ The interface looks good but not tested since it's an Electron app and I'm pushing my RAM most of the time anyhow (I'm looking at you, Slack). Interactive rebase, as another commenter has noted, is a feature I need.

I do use GitKraken. RAM used: 100Mb after a entire week opened.

It was good on 1.0 and it got even better after they introduced fuzzy search.

The interactive merge/rebase works really well.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by talles »

dhritzkiv wrote: post #39
talles wrote: post #37

Considering all free options out there, is it worth the price? https://www.git-tower.com/buy

Absolutely. Compared to other clients –SourceTree, Github, and GitKraken– the UI feels quick, makes me feel more productive –especially with drag-and-drop interactions-, and presents all the appropriate information at the right time, based on the context. If there ever is a Tower 3 release, I'm immediately purchasing an update license.

Do you know if it works well behind a corporate proxy?

I'm behind a NTLM authenticated proxy at work and we have problems passing through it with all major git clients. There are workarounds (like CNTLM) but I would love a git client that have such support out of the box.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by Nullabillity »

lultimouomo wrote: post #45
lultimouomo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartGit is an awesome, paid cross-platform Git client. Written in Java, which probably means that it cost them relatively little money to support Linux, and maybe they wouldn't have done it otherwise?

(As an aside, SmartGit is the only success story for desktop Java apps that I can think of)

JetBrains IDEs, LibreOffice.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by samfisher83 »

WayneBro wrote: post #29
chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

TortoiseGit is by far the best Git GUI on Windows or anywhere else. The UI is light, fast and it stays out of your way. It's very tightly integrated with the file browser, which is really the only app I want to be using to look at my files... SourceTree OTOH is slow and clunky on every platform. But even if it had a light and fast UI - it's not integrated with my file browser, which sucks. With TortoiseGit, every Git…

+1 for TortoiseGit . It works very well.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by mhb »

lultimouomo wrote: post #45
lultimouomo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartGit is an awesome, paid cross-platform Git client. Written in Java, which probably means that it cost them relatively little money to support Linux, and maybe they wouldn't have done it otherwise?

(As an aside, SmartGit is the only success story for desktop Java apps that I can think of)

PyCharm?

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by 1121redblackgo »

lultimouomo wrote: post #45
lultimouomo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartGit is an awesome, paid cross-platform Git client. Written in Java, which probably means that it cost them relatively little money to support Linux, and maybe they wouldn't have done it otherwise?

(As an aside, SmartGit is the only success story for desktop Java apps that I can think of)

Spotify iirc

Re: Tower for Windows

#59

Post by veli_joza »

lultimouomo wrote: post #45
lultimouomo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartGit is an awesome, paid cross-platform Git client. Written in Java, which probably means that it cost them relatively little money to support Linux, and maybe they wouldn't have done it otherwise?

(As an aside, SmartGit is the only success story for desktop Java apps that I can think of)

yEd graph editor is best example of desktop Java I've seen.

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by rchhabs »

chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

Hey Everyone, I hear ya - we’re cranking away on SourceTree and have a few things in our hopper coming in a few short weeks that’ll address many of your concerns.

Check out our most recent beta version, SourceTree for Windows 1.9.7 Beta 2 [1] with an updated TreeView to support folder level diffs, support for LFS 1.4.1, improved performance when switching tabs, a huge fix for addressing invalid dictionaries in the Spell Checker registry and many more fixes listed here [2].

We’re also working hard on improving the whole experience. Download Alpha 2.0.0 [3] for a sneak peek at a brand new SourceTree for Windows. Alpha 2.0.0. comes with high DPI support, improved repository browser & bookmarks view, patched memory leak and new tabbed navigation. Just a heads up, there are some known issues with Alpha 2.0.0, but they’ll be addressed in Alpha 2.0.1 in the coming weeks. Feel free to watch the repo to get notified of new builds.

Full disclosure - I’m the Product Manager on SourceTree. LMK if you’d like to chat; there’s a link to my calendar on my HN profile page.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/sourcetree-betas/downloa...

[2]: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/update/windows/beta/ReleaseNot...

[3]: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/sourcetree-betas/downloa...

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